Me personally, I come from very, very humble beginnings - little, small town in Alabama, you know, staying at my granddaddy house. We really didn't have nothing.

Gucci Mane

Categorized in : House Humble Alabama

As nervous as I am to pick up a water bottle, that's how nervous I am to perform. My confidence is very high. I really enjoy going up, I feel like it's my birthday everyday that I have to go up there.

water-bottles my-birthday everyday

I feel like I'm a trendsetter. I try to always stay on the edge of everything I do, whether it be music, fashion, film. I just like to stay abreast of what's going on. What's going on in the street and what's going on in the hood I put in my music and I feel like a lot of people follow that.

fashion trying people

I'm a big bike fan - my homies got Harleys and all kind of choppers - but to be honest I'm scared to ride motorcycles like that.

motorcycle honest fans

Unfortunately I've been to jail a couple times. Anytime I come in it's difficult to make music, write songs.

couple writing song

I'm just a careful person around wheels and stuff like that. I try to be as cautious as I can, cause I lost friends to motorcycle accidents and car accidents. So I don't ever play around anything like that.

motorcycle car play

I decided I was gonna call myself cause Gucci Mane cause that was my father's name. His nickname was Gucci Mane. That's what my grandmother called my father. People would call me Gucci Mane every now and then, but honestly, that was his name.

grandmother names father

I'll like to tell all the people who wrote me and said a prayer for me, thank you from the bottom of my heart.

prayer heart people

I had given thought to acting, but I never really had a good enough opportunity or a character who made sense and paralleled my life a little bit. I feel like I'm one of the poster boys for a bad guy in a movie. I feel like I'm a good person to play a bad guy in a movie. I can say that.

opportunity character boys

That fame monster's a fool, man. It really is. by Gucci Mane

That fame monster's a fool, man. It really is.

fool monsters men

I usually record all through the night, but I'm known for waking up early in the morning. Even if I had recorded till 3 or 4 in the morning I might wake up at 9 or 10. I never sleep till 1 o clock.

sleep morning night

When I might be on a business trip, a lot of people are partying and they may be drunk or under the influence of something that I'm not under the influence of, and that might influence their actions. I'm not even blaming them, but being in the club and not knowing what everybody's motives are, I have to take precautions damn near every week, especially when I go out of town.

party knowing people

I feel like if I show people how good I'm doing with myself, then it'll bring people to want me to manage them as well.

wells want people

A lot that was happening in 2005, 2006, good and bad, the beats reflected it. It was a lot of money around. People was making music to throw money to.

beats good-and-bad people

I go to the club just like a normal person. I might go to the studio, but I go everywhere like a normal person would.

clubs normal might

There's a little exhaust pipe leaking gasoline, and that gasoline is how good your music is, the gasoline is how you have relationships with people.

gasoline littles people

My goal is to drop 10 projects in 2013. All albums. I gotta do it. I know the 10 projects I want to drop.

albums goal want

For me to be where I'm at now - you know what I'm saying? - a multimillionaire and to help other people be multimillionaires - I'm so proud.

proud helping-others people

Sometimes you almost have to laugh to keep from crying to deal with the pain associated with the 'hood.

laugh you pain sometimes